The Invisible Hand: Toddlers Connect Probabilistic Events With Agentive Causes

Children posit unobserved causes when events appear to occur spontaneously (e.g., Gelman & Gottfried, 1996). What about when events appear to occur probabilistically? Here toddlers (M = 20.1 months) saw arbitrary causal relationships (Cause A generated Effect A; Cause B generated Effect B) in a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Muentener, Paul, Wu, Yang, Schulz, Laura E
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Wiley Blackwell 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113065
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0157-4925
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039

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